Here's another sketch from the summer holidays. During the second week, the weather was a bit unstable and some days there were storms and rain, that fortunately usually lasted just half of the day. When we spent the afternoon at the farm, we sometimes went for a walk across the neighbouring fields at the end of the day. The girls loved looking for the snails that infest the sweet potato and peanut crops, very abundant here and quite scarce where we live. I did this sketch during one of those walks.

Another drawing from the holidays (waterproof black pen on Moleskine). This is a detail of our bedroom, while the small one made her nap. As you can see, an important part of our holiday
packing was filled with softy dogs!

We're back! We spent great moments in some of the most beautiful beaches of the country, swam, fished, walked, played, read and I also did a little sketching. Not as much as I would have liked to, but there are at least a few worth showing here (I think!). All of them done on my Moleskine sketchbook and I found it a bit hard to get used to the extremely smooth surface of the paper - and definitely not suitable to add watercolour washes, but great for working with ink. So enough talk and here's the first sketch from the holidays - not the first one I did, but the first one I want to post, because it's my favourite. It shows my 6 yo looking at the biological pool of the farm where we were staying. I'll be posting more on the days that follow. Now, there's a lot of catching up to do on other arts blogs!

Now that everybody seems to be coming back, we're finally going on holidays. Just for about two weeks, but we've all been counting the days. Like most people in this country, we're heading towards the coast, but fortunately, now that school is about to begin, the crowds are gone. You won't be hearing from me for a while, so I'll leave you with a sketch done last year at the same place. I drew it with my smallest daughter (aged 2 at the time) on my lap - she had just fallen asleep and I didn't want to wake her up... This year, I've already packed my art supplies, including a brand new Moleskine (my first!), so I'm hoping to come back with a few new sketches to share!